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The Night Portrait
- A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy
- By: Laura Morelli
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr, Christa Lewis, Paul Woodson, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 448
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 389
Milan, 1492: When a 16-year-old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace—and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands of a high-ranking Nazi, she risks her life to recover it, working with an American soldier, part of the famed Monuments Men team, to get it back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marvelous masterpiece
- By Theresa on 11-04-20
- The Night Portrait
- A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy
- By: Laura Morelli
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr, Christa Lewis, Paul Woodson, P.J. Ochlan
Written at a Nancy Drew level
Reviewed: 10-29-21
I cannot figure out why this book is so popular. The writing is pedestrian at best. The repetition of phrases at the end and beginning of sections must be the author’s clumsy way of trying to link the sections together and perhaps suggest that the 15 century story of the painting has anything at all to do with the WWII sections. Not a great book.
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18,309
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16,213
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16,165
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- By Kristy VL on 04-17-15
- Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
A must listen
Reviewed: 08-18-20
If you find academic treatments of the prison industrial complex hard to get through, this is the book for you. Stevenson presents all the facts and statistics in the context of his own experience as a civil rights attorney. He tells the horrifying stories of children and adults wrongly convicted, framed for crimes they did not commit, given ridiculously harsh sentences for minor crimes, and killed by the State despite developmental and psychological disabilities. The stories of children locked up for life with no legal counsel are particularly heart rending.
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Redemption
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4 out of 5 stars 104
A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world on the brink of the First World War, Redemption weaves together a cast of unforgettable characters that form the heart and soul of three extraordinary Irish families. They love freedom more than life, and they will fight to the death to win it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wait for unabridged or read
- By connie on 02-04-08
- Redemption
- By: Leon Uris
- Narrated by: Charles Keating
why is this an abridged version????
Reviewed: 02-04-20
I cannot imagine why this was even made. I bought it by mistake, not even realizing there were abridged version of books on Audible. Ridiculous.
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